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Letter about our Yoga classes for pregnant women Print E-mail
Written by Claire Flanagan-Smith   

Dear David - Just a note to say 'thanks' for your help throughout my pregnancy in the Alexander technique yoga classes. I highly recommend the class to any pregnant woman. In addition, having tried both your class and various 'prenatal yoga' classes, I would choose your class every time. I found that the other yoga classes did not tailor poses to suit my individual (and changing) physique and failed to recognise that we each have different strengths and weaknesses, tightness and flexibility.

In the AT yoga class I knew that I wouldn't hurt myself and that each pose was adapted and ideal for my body's configuration.

Although I have the habit of standing with a sway (curved lower) back, which should have been exacerbated by pregnancy, I had no lower back pain at all during my pregnancy, despite giving birth to a 9 pound 3 oz baby! In fact, I think my posture was better during pregnancy than before I was pregnant!

AT yoga was been fabulous for me and gave me a range of useful poses to deal with the pain of labour naturally...up to a certain point - my baby was unfortunately posterior!

Thanks again, and I hope to be back again soon,

Regards, Claire Flanagan-Smith

 

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